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“And, of course, the most powerful people pointing out that those people are evil are those people themselves. So Musk points out that Altman's evil. Altman points out Musk is evil. They all point out Zuckerberg's evil. A huge amount of what Alex Karp does is attack Facebook and Zuckerberg. So quite a lot of what's going on is I have to get there first because I'm good, and all the others are evil.”

“The medication I'm on now, or sertraline, is probably the sixth medication that I've been on, and some of them have been terrible side effects. You have to keep keep experimenting. You do, and you have to kind of this is why the relationship's so important. And I had this this David who was so wonderful, because he wouldn't say this is gonna work, he'd say let's give this a go. And you give it a go and eventually you find something. And I find too many people give up too soon on the talking therapy and they give up too soon on the medication.”

“Karp surrounds himself by Germans. A lot of his staff are either Germans or Norwegians, and he talks. He spends about half the day talking in German. He's also obviously somebody who is very driven by fear. He's somebody who believes that the world is out to get him and out to get the West, and he particularly felt this after October 7.”

“I just I just I did say it to Tony Blair. Tony Blair and I were at a funeral a couple of weeks ago, and I said, by the way, just so you know Sean Dyche is going to be doing the big eulogy at my funeral. Former Burley manager. And Tony just said, not if I have a life, he's not.”

“Suez is really interesting. So it's interesting for two things. Firstly, the Suez Canal was thought about in the same way that we think about the Straits Of Hormuz today. The second thing is it's about US power, because, actually, it's really a story about the fact that, The UK, France, and Israel assumed that The US would have their back. And, actually, what happened is The US turned entirely against them, organized the United Nations to vote them down, and then threatened to bankrupt the entire British economy and destroy Sterling so that the chance to fix Jack Macmillan has to go in and see even the prime minister and say, we need to be out of this war in twenty four hours or we're bankrupt.”

“Front office has quietly closed its unit responsible for tracking potential breaches of international law, including by Israel and Gaza and most recent 11. First obvious thing to say in relation to Gemma, I think, is that this is a cut that's not gonna save much money. And it's interesting that of the things they chose to cut, they chose to cut this. And I wonder whether it isn't that it's a little bit uncomfortable having a whole section whose job is to keep telling ministers, this may be against international humanitarian law, so you can't sell these weapons, you can't allow these overflights, etcetera, and that maybe not having someone saying that might be a bit convenient.”

“So there are always two questions with these American companies. Data, which is what we've traditionally worried about, can they read our private data? But I'm more worried about the second question, which is sovereignty and control and The US's ability, you know, president Trump's ability to say to Google, I'm switching off the accounts of the head of the International Criminal Court, and Google complies.”

“81% are rooted patriots. So what that says to me is that the red wall that we often gets portrayed as homogeneous, sort of like, Farage, populism, Brexit, etcetera, probably because of their lived experience of family or self, they are the the keenest or the strongest believers that we have to do more on mental health.”

“I think that's I think that's how you create a good death. Another great book about this, Philip Gould, another I've had so many close friends who've died, and he wrote a book called when I die because he knew he was going to die. And I just think we don't talk about death enough. We don't think about it enough. We're scared of it.”

“He also makes a point that, he uses headlines to illustrate that in Ukraine, the headline will always be Russia bombs somebody. And in Gaza, the headline was always a bomb went off with no subject. So Israel's never identified. He also points out that when it comes to Russia, they're very happy to use the word genocide, to take, the views of the Ukrainians, to always be skeptical of the claims the Russians make. Whereas when it comes to Gaza, they assume that the Israeli military is always speaking the truth.”